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Free agency unfiltered: Jack Flaherty explains viral tweet, Ryan Yarbrough on waiting game · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The team that just won the World Series has made
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  Speaker 1: the most additions and you're like, how do they keep
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  Speaker 1: getting guards?
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  Speaker 2: And well, they're just getting better and trying to go
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  Speaker 2: back to.
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  Speaker 3: Back World series champ Jack Flaherty joining us right now
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  Speaker 3: on foul Territories Back Jack, great to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 5: What is he tweeting? Right then?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Out of his hand? Take it from him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Man, the other day, Jack, wait, we lost it for
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  Speaker 3: a sec. What'd you say?
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  Speaker 1: I was watching a clip on on slug Ball. I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to see what what this is? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know Ruben Tomorrow is I saw that he
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  Speaker 3: was part of our instagram other day and I saw that.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what it is. It looked like
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of softball players hitting home runs. And then
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Ruben's part of it. We'll get him on. Rubens
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  Speaker 3: hosts Our Philly Show, so we'll ask him.
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  Speaker 2: We'll report back.
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  Speaker 3: But how you been, man? You you're fighting through it
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  Speaker 3: because you had a pretty damn good year and you
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  Speaker 3: won a World Series.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing you know what I'm doing good. I'm hanging out,
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  Speaker 1: just working, just working and trying to get ready for
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  Speaker 1: next year wherever I end up, just been grinding away
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  Speaker 1: as if all things are normal, which they definitely aren't,
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  Speaker 1: but just been grinding away, trying to get ready.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: What's not normal?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you pitched great last year, you pitched great
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  Speaker 4: last year, you were traded, you won the World You
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  Speaker 4: start a game one of the World Series for the
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  Speaker 4: team that won the World Series. You were healthy, unbelievable year.
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  Speaker 4: What's not normal? I don't understand how I said I
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  Speaker 4: brought you up? How many times? I'm like, where the
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  Speaker 4: hell are the Jack Flaherty rumors? Why have I heard nothing?
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  Speaker 6: I just don't.
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  Speaker 5: Understand, Like you should be for me. You should have
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  Speaker 5: been on the top of the list for twenty teams.
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  Speaker 2: You know you would, you would hope.
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  Speaker 1: So after you know, it was kind of okay in
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, I gotta prove that I'm healthy And in
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, I gotta, you know, go out and actually
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  Speaker 1: be healthy and good again, because I struggled in twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's no there's no hiding behind it.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't it wasn't very good.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you go into the off the off
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  Speaker 1: season with a hope of you know, hopefully getting off
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  Speaker 1: the board quickly and whatnot. And now we're sitting here
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  Speaker 1: on January twenty third, with no.
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  Speaker 2: Rumblings, nothing really going on, just.
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  Speaker 1: Just waiting and all the other top guys are gone
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  Speaker 1: and we, you know, waited for Susak.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Normal in the fact that I don't know where I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go play, don't know where I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: spring training. Everything else is. But in terms of why
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had a really good answer for you,
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  Speaker 1: it's I don't know. I wish I had a better
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  Speaker 1: answer other than I don't know what's making this so difficult?
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  Speaker 6: You said, not really, So I need one hundred percent
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  Speaker 6: confirmation that no team has called and been like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: what are you up to? Like they're just crickets. They're
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  Speaker 6: like they don't even know you exists.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what are you up to?
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, are we gonna have a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: figuring out a deal?
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  Speaker 2: Or are you just gonna ask what am I up to?
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  Speaker 2: Like is what are what again?
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  Speaker 1: It's just like oh, you know, and you know, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: when is the market gonna move?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Like?
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  Speaker 2: When is when is the market going to move? It's
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  Speaker 2: just like you just have to make an offer and
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  Speaker 2: then that it'll go.
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  Speaker 1: But just calling and checking in being like, oh, how's
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  Speaker 1: it going, how are you feeling, I'm like feel great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: where we're gonna play next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. It's weird.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like teams don't want to win?
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  Speaker 7: You?
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like they're more because of what you did?
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  Speaker 6: Because of what you did last year, not only did
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  Speaker 6: you prove that you can help a team win, but
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  Speaker 6: you won. You helped a team make some playoffs, and
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  Speaker 6: then you helped another team in the playoffs in the
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  Speaker 6: World Series. You are clearly a winner. You can't. You
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  Speaker 6: grew up in a winning organization. To me, winning is
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  Speaker 6: just all around you. You're not even thirty yet. Do
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  Speaker 6: you feel like teams don't want to win bad enough
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  Speaker 6: as bad as players want to win?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think teams want to win. I think
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  Speaker 2: it is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Part I like, I'm twenty nine. I'm gonna be twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine this whole season. It's not like, uh, in an
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  Speaker 1: older guy in free agency, and it's my it's my
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  Speaker 1: second go around. I'm gonna be twenty nine the whole year,
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  Speaker 1: just during twenty nine in October.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not that I don't think teams want to win.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have just a certain number of teams
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  Speaker 1: that want to win, and they look and they look
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  Speaker 1: at their rosters and there, and they're happy with it.
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  Speaker 2: So when you have a lot of the league kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Just like, well, you know, we're okay, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: the the White Sox trading away Crochet, who's one of
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  Speaker 1: their only pieces that they have to the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: and like all, like kudos to the Red Sox for
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  Speaker 1: going and getting him. You know, that takes a spot
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  Speaker 1: away from where I could have potentially gone. They go
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  Speaker 1: out and get an ace and a stud in Crochet
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  Speaker 1: from a team that has, you know, we're not sure
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there. They just set the record for
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  Speaker 1: losses and then they now get rid of more players.
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  Speaker 1: So I think teams want to win, But I also
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  Speaker 1: think team just want to get into the playoffs. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not World Series or BUS or it's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, hope we can get into the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: then kind of see.
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  Speaker 2: What happens, and.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I don't know, it was a it
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  Speaker 1: was a it was a good year. Last year, it
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  Speaker 1: was a good run. You know, starting the postseason we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Some weren't. It's just kind of the way that it goes.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna I'm gonna go out there and throw
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  Speaker 1: until until it's time to take the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: my hands. And you know, and as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're just we're we're waiting. Not I just I just
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  Speaker 1: want to play ball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna play ball. Well, I gotta ask you.
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  Speaker 4: You brought up twenty three and how it went and
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  Speaker 4: did you went to twenty four?
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  Speaker 5: What was the difference?
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  Speaker 4: I want to know what the difference was in twenty
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  Speaker 4: three and twenty four because I remember you being super
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  Speaker 4: hyped as a Cardinals guy and then you obviously go
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  Speaker 4: to Baltimore things don't work out, but then you go
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  Speaker 4: to Detroit and you had an unbelievable start, You go
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  Speaker 4: to La continue that. So what was the difference between
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  Speaker 4: twenty three to twenty four and where you're at now?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I think even my you know, in twenty three in
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, uh, it was. I mean, it was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit kind of the first change that we've had
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  Speaker 1: there in terms of you know, Yati had been there forever,
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  Speaker 1: and I came up with him and Matt Weed and.
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  Speaker 2: And was able to throw to them a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a first time changing catchers, and there
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  Speaker 1: was some ups and downs. And I came on here
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  Speaker 1: last year to defend Wilson and the comments that I
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  Speaker 1: made after a game because you know, he he truly
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  Speaker 1: was awesome and really like really did work while he
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  Speaker 1: was there. And then it was the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I changed organizations and try to change a few things
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  Speaker 1: and working with a new catcher, new system and all
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  Speaker 1: these things, and it just sometimes it didn't go well.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's continuity is a great thing. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, then I switched some things in my off season.
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  Speaker 1: I moved out of moved out of l a kind
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  Speaker 1: of went and revamped a couple of things, revamped my mind,
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  Speaker 1: revamped the way I was moving. And then go to
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  Speaker 1: Detroit and they do a really really good job there
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  Speaker 1: with with veteran Robin ln and AJ like, they're all
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  Speaker 1: awesome there and it has shown, like you know, Scuba
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  Speaker 1: ands a cy young. The dude's a stud and he's
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  Speaker 1: so much fun to be around as well. And then
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  Speaker 1: I was just able to kind of carry that over
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  Speaker 1: into LA. But you could see there was still you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it just for me having being traded
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  Speaker 1: at the deadline and guy who just got put in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame what CC Sabbathy was able to
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  Speaker 1: do when he got traded, and he got traded a
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  Speaker 1: little bit earlier, but was he able to do switching
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  Speaker 1: teams in the middle of a season. You could see
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  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a change going from
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  Speaker 1: what I did in Detroit to LA and there was
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  Speaker 1: there was some up and down. Then you're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to you're trying to get on board with your catcher.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to, you know, figure some things out on
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  Speaker 1: the flat in the middle of a playoff run, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not always the easiest thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I was just able to to mentally reset, physically,
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  Speaker 1: get my body in better places to carry it on
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  Speaker 1: throughout the year and just just trust my stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: when you got two teams that trust you to to
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  Speaker 1: send you out there and give you the ball and
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  Speaker 1: in in big situations and big games, and and AJ
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  Speaker 1: left me out there and in certain games when you know,
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  Speaker 1: pitch count got up there, Uh, sometimes it.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: I could remember, you know, you know var Show got
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  Speaker 1: me on a hit a home run off me in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh inning, and you know you had to come
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  Speaker 1: out and get me afterwards, and we lost the lead.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Doc gave me some some some games
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  Speaker 1: where the pitch count ran up and we went a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, went a little bit deeper. But and you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving me the ball and won in Game five. And
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  Speaker 1: both times Game five I didn't I didn't pitch well.
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  Speaker 1: And uh but you know in the World Series, the
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  Speaker 1: boys able to pick me up and uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: we won that game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Tigers win the American League. If you're still on
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  Speaker 6: the Tigers, I know, it's ifs and butts and all
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  Speaker 6: that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to stay in Detroit. We had
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  Speaker 1: we had conversations and I loved it there. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought the combo of me and Scoob was was was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: And then you saw what they did, the run that
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  Speaker 1: they went on even after I got traded and they
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  Speaker 1: brought all those young guys up. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we I mean they got to it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they get to at least you get to
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  Speaker 1: Game five with Cleveland and they got Scoop on the
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  Speaker 1: mound and Lane Thomas puts one swing and that's how
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  Speaker 1: that's how the playoffs go. Is as as crazy as
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  Speaker 1: it as it is. Do I think we win that series?
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  Speaker 2: Probably?
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  Speaker 1: We probably win that series and face the Yankees in
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  Speaker 1: in in the LCS, which is crazy to think about.
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  Speaker 2: So we went we win that series?
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  Speaker 1: I shoot, I don't know, but I think we get
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  Speaker 1: I think at least we get there.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that, you know, but they get some prospects
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  Speaker 1: in return who you know, ended up doing doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job for them and have been great, and you know, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was fun. It was watch what they did. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking to them and talking to
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  Speaker 1: other teams and just like, hey, you know, it'd be
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  Speaker 1: fun to go back there.
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  Speaker 6: How about how about the other team that you almost
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  Speaker 6: got traded to the Yankees? Two parts? Two parts for me,
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  Speaker 6: Do you think it's fair that it was put out
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  Speaker 6: there that they failed your medicals? And do you think
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  Speaker 6: it's fair that if you were on the Yankees now,
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  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, what would you have done to
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  Speaker 6: your Dodger boys in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tread carefully on the if it was fair.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when it came out, it was just like
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  Speaker 1: it was they were still trying to trade for me
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  Speaker 1: as it was going on. So they dropped that after
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  Speaker 1: the trade and then but they had still been trying
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  Speaker 1: to up to the deadline to make just a different trade,
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  Speaker 1: like ah, we don't we don't love the medicals, but
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  Speaker 1: they were still trying to make a trade. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm in LA now, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: worried about it. And then ending up against them in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series was kind of a full circle thing.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if if I'm there, do we do we?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been fun playing playing against the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and going against him and being on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy with the way that things turned out. I
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  Speaker 1: spent and it was, you know, crazy, with just the
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  Speaker 1: injuries that that happened in l A, with with Glass
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  Speaker 1: going down and Stony going down, and Yamamoto missing missing
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  Speaker 1: some time and Kersh not being able to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I was just fortunate enough to just to stay healthy
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  Speaker 1: and and take the ball when I was asked, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Yama gave that huge Game five start against San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: He was incredible, and uh, I was lucky.
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  Speaker 1: I was lucky enough in Game one to go out
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  Speaker 1: and give him a good start in Game one of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series gone give a good start.
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  Speaker 2: So are things different maybe? And if you look at
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  Speaker 2: it in terms.
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  Speaker 1: Of what happens on the LA side, if that trade
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen, if you know, it's like, did they would
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  Speaker 1: they have gotten somebody else to fill those to fill
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  Speaker 1: those starts or what would it have looked like? That's
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  Speaker 1: that's maybe, that's that's that's the interesting part. I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy with the way it worked out.
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  Speaker 2: We won. UH got to win in the hometown. Can't
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  Speaker 2: complain about it.
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  Speaker 5: Did you uh? Did you call speaking in your hometown?
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  Speaker 4: Did you call your boy Max Freed and say, listen, man,
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  Speaker 4: they failed me. Bro be careful when you signed with
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees for all that money, you never know, like
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  Speaker 4: they might fail you after they sign you. Carlos Korea style.
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  Speaker 1: I went over to Max's house, gave him a big hug,
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  Speaker 1: right right when, right when I could he was. He
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  Speaker 1: was with some family and that night I went over
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  Speaker 1: to his house, gave him a big hug and just
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  Speaker 1: just talk to him and was couldn't have been happier
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  Speaker 1: for him. So he's they got an unbelievable guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's a stud. He's been a stud this whole in
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  Speaker 1: the league. And you just you love seeing guys get paid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no matter who it is, you love seeing
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  Speaker 1: guys get paid. You know what they're worth, and especially
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  Speaker 1: with how long and how good you have to be
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  Speaker 1: in baseball just to get to free agency.
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  Speaker 2: And just to see guys like get what they're worth.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know, there's been not very
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  Speaker 1: many long term deals given out this year. You obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know you've got Soto, You've got Max, You've got Burns, Blake, Willie.
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  Speaker 1: But everything else has been has been has been pretty short.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm I was, I was stoked for Max. I
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  Speaker 1: could I could care less about you know, what what
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  Speaker 1: happened and whatnot. They got a good one, And I
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  Speaker 1: hope he goes there and thraves nice.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: I love hearing that. So then this leads you to
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  Speaker 4: our next question. You just mentioned that a lot of
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  Speaker 4: teams aren't given long term deals. Do we need a floor?
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  Speaker 4: Do we need a salary floor in baseball? Because I
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  Speaker 4: because the problem is is I always say, is if
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  Speaker 4: you go floor, then the owners are gonna want a cap,
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  Speaker 4: and that's gonna lead to a huge fight between the
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  Speaker 4: owners and the players. So I don't know how you
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  Speaker 4: have a cap and not have a floor or vice versa.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a slippery slope, right, There's a soft cap.
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  Speaker 1: There is there is, There is already a soft cap
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  Speaker 1: in the Luxury tax Uh. And I'm not a part
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  Speaker 1: of the PA anymore. I was in it for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and uh I'm not. I'm not on the executive committee anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I don't want to I don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to you don't want to cap. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want a hard cap because the way that owners
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  Speaker 1: are operating and maneuvering right now. Uh, it's that's a
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: that's a weird it's a weird situation. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that you need a floor. You just need teams to
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: want to like to to win. And you know, the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: team that just won the World Series was like the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: basis of of the tweet was the team that just
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  Speaker 1: won the World Series has made the most additions, and
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  Speaker 1: how everybody it's like, oh, you know, they just they
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  Speaker 1: just defer money, they just do this and that. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, yeah, I mean people want to go
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: play in la they want to win. People want to
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: play in Philly. That's an unbelivable place to go play
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: and win. People want It's not that the only place
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: that you can go and win, Like, yeah, you want
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to go past show. Hey, you want to play with Mook,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you want to play Fredy. Those guys are awesome. You
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: want to be around kersh Like, those guys were incredible.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I was lucky. You have to spend three months with
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: them and and win the World Series. But there's other.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Places to go that are maxic going to New York
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Yankees unbelievable, Walker Goes is going to Boston unbelievable place
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: to go and win, Houston, Philly like uh, Like, there's
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: there's places to go that have won and are consistently
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs and are consistently right there with the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: chance to win. And then there's all there's everybody else
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: that it's kind of just sitting and sitting in limbo
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: and and you know, well, we're cutting payroll here, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: adding here, you know, and then like, but we're not
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: really gonna do any We're not doing anything else. But
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the team that just won the World Series has made
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the most additions, and you're like, how do they keep
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: getting guys Like, well, they're just getting better and trying
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to go back to back, which is very clearly what
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do, and I just go back to back.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: But they got show here for the next nine years.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: They've got Yamamoto for the next eleven years. They're gonna
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: have Sasaki for I don't know how that works. I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: think it's the next six years at least, they're gonna have.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: They have Blake for next, so they're not trying to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: go back to back. They're trying to win as many
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: as they can in that time frame and then who
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: knows what happens after them.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: But you've got to.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Respect, Hey, we're not just all in for this year.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: We're all in for the next whatever it is, like
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: nine years. I think Mookie has seven more years on
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: his deal. I don't know what Freddy's deal is. Like,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: they got those guys and they're gonna be there, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you got to appreciate the fact, like like, damn, that's cool,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you know, And but you would you'd like to see
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the other teams make the same additions because you would think, Okay,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: we got to catch this team, we need to go
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: add well the top team, they just added more.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Pieces, and.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd hope that other than you got to catch
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: them somehow.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Agreed.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Agreed by the way, you almost said Chicago, And that's
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: a bad choice. Teams that are going to be especially
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: one on the South Side. But I gotta ask you
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: about your your other old team while we have because
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: the Cardinals used to try to play, they used to
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: try to play in those waters, right, And did you
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: ever think there would be a day where you heard
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the Cardinals say we're not trying this year because they
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: always have tried forever as long as I can remember.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: And they kind of came out and said, ah, we're
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: not going to be that good this year, fans, so
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: everyone clambered down, We're gonna kind of reset for a year.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: That's crazy to me because the Cardinals are the team
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: that could go do it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I always feel like, I mean, they can and they
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: tried they go get Son last year, and uh is
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Wilson's second year, and you know, and and and you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Nolan struggled a little bit last year, but I've seen
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the way he's working and what he's going about his
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: business and the way new part. You know that those
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: guys are going to turn around. It's it's weird to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: think about of them being like, well, we're going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: reset this year and we're you know, we're gonna try
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to trade Nolan. Well, we haven't traded Nolan for I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know. It's like we're gonna reset, but
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: where we can't trade Nolan Arnatto and for a team
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to be like, no, we don't want Nolan Arnatto or
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: whatever that situation is is weird. Why you wouldn't want
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that guy who's working his tail off this entire offseason
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: is one of the best guys to have in a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in a locker room.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That's Uh, that place was great. I think that there's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: been interesting things going on since my last couple of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: years there, and uh, you know, I got painted a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: certain way by uh, you know, in my time as
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I was leaving there, people were saying that I always
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: wanted to leave, and I always I always wanted to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: go West, and yet I went and signed in Detroit
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't go there. I'm not.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not going back to l A most like it
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: can do the numbers, it can do the math.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: That doesn't bother me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go elsewhere and win and see if
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we can't beat those guys. Yeah, but it's it's it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's weird because you know that those guys there want
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I know Nolan wants to win. I know Mason win
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: wants to win.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, he's a gamer, He's he's gonna compete every every
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: single time out. You know, Sonny wants to to win
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and compete. Wilson wants to win. Like they're not really
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: about Those guys aren't about about numbers like they want
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: they want to win and if they if they start winning,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: those numbers are gonna they're gonna produce. And uh, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it's hard when when you're not winning to it's a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: lot easier to stay locked in when when you're when
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you're winning than it is when uh you're not.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: You know that you talked about that great way better, yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: way better, way easier to show up every day when
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, we're gonna win today.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Right when you're in a race.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have a chance.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: And that is a und lost team.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: That's awful.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Well, Jack, we're following the story obviously. We appreciate the
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: hell out of you coming on after the tweet caught
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of good attention in my mind, because it's
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: time for some other teams to wake the hell up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: So thanks for joining us. Dude, We're gonna we'll have
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you back when you when you got the deal rolled out,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: when someone wakes up.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate it. Guys are great.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Someone sign somebody. Somebody have been asking for it for
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: three months now, somebody do it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Thanks Jack, we'll talk to you soon. But I was
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: having a conversation or just one or two back in
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: forth combos here with with Michael and the chat who
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: was saying, hey, not every team has you know, a
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: billion plus to spend in the off season. I completely agree.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I am totally on the same page here. Do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: think the pendulum has swung so far the other way
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: that people's expectations are tilted right where you're like, oh,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: my team did this one little thing. Like if you
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: go back to the not so distant past, expectations were
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: higher in off seasons, and also moves were made earlier.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: From a business standpoint, for all purposes, it makes sense
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to sign or trade for players earlier in the off
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: season because then it impacts season ticket sales.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I have friends who have season tickets to teams across
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the country and they talk to their ticket reps and
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: they're like, Yo, you haven't done anything. And then they
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: call them like March first, look, we did something, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: they're like, all right, too late. So come on, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: think you need to do a check with yourself and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: say should this team be doing more? And did my
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: expectations go so far down that I've lost a sense
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: of reality with the off season. I think that's why
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it was important to have Jack on. This doesn't have
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to do with players on our show. Supporting players. Come on,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Jack's twenty nine, coming off a great year, pitched Game
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: one of the World Series. Is he going to get
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a three hundred million dollar contracts? Is going to get
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Corman Burns deal? No, But we just had him on
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and he said he's getting phone calls from teams like hey,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: how you doing. He's like, good, do you have an offer? No,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: just just checking in because you know what they're doing.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: They're seeing if he goes. You know, I just really
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: want to pitch I'll take a one year deal. Why
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: does he have to do another one year deal after
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the one year deal.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: He just did.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I'm genuinely curious, Like what am I missing here? Again,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Saying they don't want to win.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Oh he's got to get two hundred million dollars or
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: whatever it is.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: They don't want to win bad enough.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I've been saying it for months. Okay, I've been saying
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: it for months.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, just throwing it out there, and some
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: people are gonna be like, oh, you bash owners too much.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not even talking about owners. I'm just like, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: even it's you know, it's a team to bring up
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: because I know Braves Fins have been freaking out. We've
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: been trying to temper expectations, but they could use a
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: starter the prom with Atlanta. Do you know what the
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: problem with Atlanta is That I found out the other
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: day they are actually trying to reset and stay under
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the luxury tax. That's fine that I'm not criticizing the Braves.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: They've spent plenty of money, but do you know what
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the luxury tax is. It's a soft cap, so that
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: takes them out of the mix this year for a
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: player like Flaherty, they just lost two starters. And I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: still think they have nice arms, but I'd be a
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: little concientrated Sola.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Why do you think they've made some of the moves
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: they Charlie Morton walk because of what.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: You just said.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: It's the cap, that's my point.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: And but the cap.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: The problem with you're having a soft cap is you
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: don't have a soft floor, so you can't so other
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: teams should have to spend the month. That's the one
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: thing about the NBA. People say what they want. There's
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: like twelve men on the NBA that make like ten
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: million a year. Why because the team isn't trying, but
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: they have to spend a certain amount, so they go
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: sign the twelfth guy for like ten million. The guy's
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: like I get two minutes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Never.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: The biggest crime is that revenue sharing doesn't have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: be proven, not every penny with player payroll. So like
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: we just were talking about the Marlins last year, the
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Marlins said, oh, we can't signed players because we're focusing
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: on hiring internal staff. Nobody on that internal staff is
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: making millions of dollars. And then this offseason we still
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: haven't seen anything. They already hired the internal staff. So
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: this is the kind of stuff we're talking about.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Zero major league players, right, zero.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: The Marlins, yeah, last year they.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Signed one.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: One for five mili t Yeah, and the Twins in
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: a two year span now haven't signed anyone over five
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: mil since. Obviously, they brought on Corey and they told Krey,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: we're gonna we're going for it, this is our window.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: And they spent what nine point two million since they
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: gave him the money and that promise. So not only
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: are they not trying, they're also liars. They lied to him.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: That's why it just it pisses me off because I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: just think the narrative is going the wrong way, and
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't give a crap. I'm sorry. If
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you're if you're an ownership apologist, like, tell me why
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: you're defending Seattle Right now, no one has a real answer.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: They can't sign one significant player, not one in an offseason.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: And they're so close, they're not so close to the playoffs,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: they're so close to winning the World Series. That's the
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: hard part. At least the Marlins just stink. Stink. The
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: White Sox think stink.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Back on FT with Ryan Yarborough, who might be texting
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: with a team right now, a free agent Ryan Yardborough. Ryan,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: great to have you on, dude. Obviously we can have
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: fun with this. I don't know if you're aware, but
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: you're not alone. They're probably like one hundred people in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: your spot that will be on a big league team
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: this year that unfortunately cannot book their spring training home
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: situation at the moment. How you doing, Bud Good?
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's a definitely crazy to think about
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Spring training starts in three weeks right now for pitchers
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: and catchers, and we'll still know where we're going yet,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: So it's pretty crazy to think about.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: How does that work?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, are you getting nervous yet? Because you're gonna
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: find a job. But are you nervous yet? Is your
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: wife nervous? Is your mom and dad calling you saying.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Where are your ARBs?
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Where are you gonna sign?
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Because I know when I was a free agent and
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: once you hit like Christmas times the end sign everybody
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: every time they see you.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: What do you're not playing next year? Does you retire?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Why haven't you signed with the Dodgers? Like every team,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: every person.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh, I feel like every new year comes
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: around and everything just rams up in general because you realize,
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: you know, the holidays are over, spring training starts in
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: a couple of weeks. But yeah, it's it's strange, you know.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: I feel like it's harder on your family a little bit,
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: just because the drop of a hat, I could get
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: on a flight and tomorrow or in two days, where
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: you know, wife and kids, they got to figure out
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: all the logistics and kind of get everything ready packed
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: up for six seven months. So I feel like that's
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: the hardest part. But you just don't really know right now.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of there's been an interest, but like
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: it's just kind of the waiting game. You get itchy,
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: but you know, like you said, it'll work out right now,
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: it's just kind of like you'd rather know sooner than
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: later to kind of get everything lined up and good
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: to go.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: How much does your place cost extra for spring training?
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Now that it's January twenty, they're just they're just they're
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: getting you. They're getting you on your last minute and
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: everyone's swooped up all the nice places already. So how
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: much extra I mean, got to cook that into your contract.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Be like, all right, I'll take eight million and fourteen
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: thousand dollars because that's how much extra my rent is
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: going to be when I get there.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's you know, we paid some LA prices for
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: season out there, and you thought that was crazy. Uh. Yeah,
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: the closer you get, the harder it becomes. You know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: being here in Tampa, there's luckily there's a few teams
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: around here that would be perfect situation. You can just
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: stay at home, but you know, realistically that's probably not
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: the easiest thing to happen with some other teams across
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: the state and in Arizona. So you know, we'll just
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: have to keep things pretty flowing pretty easily, you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: like you just gotta play it by a year and
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: just hope something works out pretty well.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: All right, this is probably way outside the box, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: your wife may say, tell that nerd to never ask
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: that again. But did you ever think about you're close,
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: you're close to a lot of teams. Do you ever
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: think about doing a house swap where you're like, hey, uh,
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: let's say Bregmant signs with the Yankees and you're like, hey,
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: you want to rent my house for spring training? I
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: know you're rich. I'll double the I'll double the cost,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: like or that A is that a no fly zone? No?
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: I mean we a couple years ago we let a
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: teammates stay here in Tampa. I mean it was kind
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: of a hike when he lived and he played for
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: the Tigers. So in Lakeland, I mean he was willing
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: to drive the forty five minutes to an hour, so
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: we just let him crash. Hear him and his wife,
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: So I mean someone wants to do that. I'm all
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: ears for that because you know it's gonna be a
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: nicer spot and you know, we uh, we feel like
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: we'd be comfortable letting people stay here and make that
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: pretty easy. So I'm all floor its. You got the connections,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: christ So let me know, man, who was it with
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: the former team of mine, Matt Whistler. You know the Sliders.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I know Matt Whistler, Slider City.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Slader City went from a starting pitcher to old sladder
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Bawler every picture, dude, he should have stayed Orlando bro
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: his uncle's Richard and hell living in Orlando, Jared, he
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't give him money, huh, rich house over here in Orlando.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I have a business proposal, Ryan, what it sounds like.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Arizona is obviously always the spot that the prices get
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: crazy and you can basically get a place and be
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: close enough to any ballpark, right versus Florida, where obviously
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: you need to know where you're gonna be. But I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: do think it could be easier to get spots late.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Why not just get a spot, secure it in Arizona
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: fifty to fifty chance that you use it. If not,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: there's a hundred other people like you that you can
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: pass the batonto. I actually think it makes sense.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, especially like you said, Arizona's just because you can
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: literally book anywhere around Phoenix and you could just make
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: it work, you know, thirty forty minute drive realistically, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: so that's easy. But yeah, I mean that's probably the
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: easiest play at that point, just because you got a
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: fifty to fifty chance of teams out there. So you know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: I haven't really thought about that. Probably my wife has
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: already thought about that, has been looking at places, who knows,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: But you know, as long as they're comfortable, I mean
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: I could sleep anywhere. You know, we we do so
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: many different stops throughout the year and everything like that,
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: where it's just kind of wherever you can kind of
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: take a nap or get some sleep and get ready
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: to go the next day.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Listen, your wife is much nicer than mine. Okay, I'm
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: gonna say this right now. What because there is no chance,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: on God's grief ever rent my house.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, there's no chance. Any house I've ever lived in,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: there's no chance.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: You'd be like hey, I'd be like, hey, uh Ryan
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Yarborough wants to come live in our house in spring
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: training and we're gonna be in Arizona.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: She would be like, hell.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: No, can he get the studio?
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: No, she would.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Never allow that ever. In a millionaires there's the urinal
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: here that doesn't matter. Still, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: We oh man one time, yeah a player, Yeah it
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: was it was a it was a one time.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: It happened.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: If someone called me and I was like, no, not happening.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Wow, Well right, I have a place in downtown and
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I'm not there half the time, so you're welcome to
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: use that if need be. But there are no teams
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: around here. Yeah, there you go all right, let me uh,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: let me move.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: To the club.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: You've spent a good chunk of time with what do
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: you think of the Dodgers off season and fans complaining
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: that they're the only team that cares.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: They're just you know, they're they're not waiting around, they're
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: not messing around for sure. You know, they kind of
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: seeing the guys they really like and they're just pulling
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: the trigger. So uh, you know, I'm I'm excited for them.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: You know, I think there's all those guys that they
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: were kind of you're not surprised by. Even last year
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: you were talking to you know, my lockers right next
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: to Evan Phillips. I knew he was really close with
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: Tanner Scott and you're like, dude, what I would you
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: feel about that guy coming here next year? He's like, dude,
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Like I'm already trying to whisper a little bit, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: so like I knew he was, like and with how
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: nasty that guy's stuff was, and then everyone wants rookie,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: so you know, and obviously bringing Tayo back and Snell,
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: you know, there's a connection there from Friedman and all
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: the raised guys years over there. So man it's it's
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: crazy to think about how deep they are and they're
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: basically you looked all the the young guys that are
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: gonna be in triple air up and down, and those
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: guys are good players too. And the fact that they're
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: kind of getting pushed out a little bit. It's it's
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: mind blowing.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Did you change your number? Did they not call you yet?
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Did they not? Did they not want the Dodgers didn't
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: call you? Because if you change their number, I'll give it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: I'll give it to the doc or somebody so they
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: can make sure they call you.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: No, they all got it. But you know, don't have
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: so many mouths of feet right now. Man, It's it's nuts.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you're you're you don't even you don't even
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: eat that much. You're not you're not that big. You're
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: kind of on you're on the cut, You're you're skinny guy.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: You won't eat that much. You won't even make that
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: big a deal. You just need a spot on twenty
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: six mans, right.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: Just for me to eat some innings, you know, whenever
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: you need it. No big deal. Uh did that for
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: what four months with them last year? So they definitely
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: have a good understanding what I'm about but uh no,
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: it's it's one of those things where you know, just
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: waiting for the right opportunity. But you know, I mean
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: what they're doing over there is is crazy, the amount
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: of talent they're accumulating.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Talk about the Blue Jays because one of the things
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: that I brought up and got a little flak for
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: tell us you just lived it. The fact that when
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: you go to Toronto and your family, the girls are
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: you know, they're they're not afraid of traveling. They make
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: some flights. How much, honestly more difficult is it for
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: them traveling to and from Toronto because you just, like
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: you said, spring training, you're bringing your you know, you
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: can sleep anywhere. Your drop of a hat, you'll get
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: on a flight. You're on the team flight leaving Toronto.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: How tough is it for them? Now in twenty twenty four,
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: you just you just saw it, saw it happen, You
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: just went through it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're I think that was the craziest
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: part was anytime you get moved mid season, it's really
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: hard just because you literally have to pick up everything
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: and go and like ours was in like a two
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: or three day span and they ended up coming with
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: me and we met them in New York. We were
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: lucky enough, and I think that was the maybe the
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: toughest part about maybe with family it's going to Toronto
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: was we luckily had both of our daughters had passports
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: and they're three and one, which even I'm sure most
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: people with their kids don't necessarily have them, just because
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: you don't really think about unless you're just traveling in
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: the off season or anything. But we got them luckily.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: When we said we had a with La, we went
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: and started the year in Korea, so we had like
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: this big like passport expos were like I might as
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: well like get the girls done like they're here, like
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: take advantage of it, because if that hadn't happened, like
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: they probably wouldn't be able to come see me at
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: all for those two months I was there. So we
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: were lucky in that aspect. But it's just an added
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: little layer of getting over the border. You know, they
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: try to make it as easy as possible, but it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: just still something you have to do every single time
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: you go there. It's just part of it. And then
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: there's just only certain airlines you can use getting in
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: and out because of just being in a different country,
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: so like fighting that where you have maybe more options
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: flying in the States, So just a little bit more
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: logistical things you have to take care of, and anytime
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: you do it mid season, it just makes things a
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: little bit more complicated and just kind of having to
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: stay on.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Top of things.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Right, and you're talking about Toronto and not a lot
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: of flights, but you were on the Rays for a
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: long time and also in Casey, Right, and then you
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: go to the Dodgers team with these guys, these show
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Hey and Freddie and Mookie and the star studded people
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: that they had. What was the major biggest difference you
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: saw between the Rays following and the Dodgers following.
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: They traveled everywhere, like we literally were across the whole country,
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: and well, I mean early in the year. Those are
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: probably the coolest games I've been a part of whenever
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: you're playing in Division, especially because of the I mean,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: I grew up in Florida. Here you don't really know
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: too much about it, hearing the beat La chants everywhere
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: no matter what the score is, and especially when we
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: went to San Diego, that's pretty incredible hostile environment coming
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: in as a Dodger player. Just the amount of like
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: support and like how they want bad they want to
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: beat you there. So those are really cool atmospheres. But yeah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: when we were I mean, that's just how Tampa is.
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: You'd have some people like everywhere you go, but like
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: it was like a whole different animal. Like we went
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: to Boston across the country and that was like, well
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: you can see a whole giant blue section in the stadium.
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: Like there's a certain like community I can't even remember.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: It's like someone with the pants on blue or they
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: call themselves certain I don't want to butcher it, but
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: like they literally have a whole community that they travel
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: everywhere and they meet everywhere and they can all sit
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: together and have this community. So it was crazy how
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: they traveled and how extensively and how big of a
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: group that would travel everywhere.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: You played in the Division against the Yankees. Now you
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: played with the Dodgers. Do you envision any time in
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: our lifetime or even in the next ten years that
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: more people start to follow the Dodgers than the Yankees
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: because of what they're building out there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: I mean, with what they're doing right now, it's incredible
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: and I think, I mean, you probably could, especially with
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: how many like across the globe, especially with all the
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: three big name Japanese guys that they have on board,
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: and they obviously got the guy from Korea as well,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: so they're broadening it and obviously their household name. Like
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: you think of Major League Baseball, there's a handful of
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: teams you can think of. Obviously the Yankees and Dodgers
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: are probably two of the bigger ones. So I mean, man,
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: especially with all the success they've had and the big
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: names are acquiring, it wouldn't surprise me by any means,
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: which is not to take away from anything. It's just
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: crazy what they've kind of been building and the amount
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: of talent I said, the talent that they're kind of accumulating.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Ryan, we'll talk to you. Of course, have to end
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: up signing with the ball club. But is there any
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: other insight that you can give us into your experience
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: throughout the off season here of what it's like to
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: be a free agent. I think the easiest way to
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: slices is that there are some guys who call their
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: agents every day. There are some guys who tell us
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: they don't ask anything or want any phone calls until
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: they get a major league offer and most kind of
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: fall in between there with like the weekly check ins.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: But how has your experience been, obviously without getting into
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the team side of things until you sign.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's I try to not bother my
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: agent too much about it. It's been one of those
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: things where he'll we've kind of talked about. It's like, hey,
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: like if I get a new information or you know,
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: when a certain team reaches out, like I'll let you
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: know and kind of what the talks are about and
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: kind of how they're gauging things. So we talk pretty
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: regularly in that end, like, hey, I heard from this
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: team for you, like and there this is done at
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: the interest level. They're they're talking to you right now.
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: So but I'm not I try not to be like, hey,
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: what have we got, you know, because there's so many
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: things out there already, like of all the rumors and everything,
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: like just from players in general. So but no, I
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: think it's been a little so just trying. I had
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: a little bit experience because I got an intent nontended
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: a couple of years ago, so you have that, like
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: it is free agency, but like you're still part of
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: the system in a way. Once you get signed, so
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: and that ended up happening pretty quickly, So like that
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: was not like having to play the waiting game, where
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: this is like a little bit more extensive and trying
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: to like just find the waiting for your opportunity and
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: your market to kind of start being created. So it's
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: just a lot of waiting and trying to focus on
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: like your lifts and your bullpens and preparing for that way,
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: but like just letting things kind of play out until
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: you'll end up in the right spot.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Do you prepare any differently not knowing where you're going?
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Because do you change your bullpen schedule? Do you change
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: your lifting schedule? Because if you're already with the team,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: a lot of teams reach out and say, hey, you know,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: we need you to be ready to go for here,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: for there or whatever it is. So do you change
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: anything because you don't know where you're going right now?
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: Uh No, But it is a good point because like
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: then teams will say, hey, we want you to kind
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: of stretch out or a certain bit or be it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: This ending is by the end of spring training, Luckily,
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: like I end up being more of a guy who's
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: been stretched out anyways over camp every year in my career.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: So I'm just trying to keep it that the same
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: where I'm just worrying about building up and throwing like
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: eight to ten bullpens, whatever it might be. You know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: just like trying to work back where it's okay being
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: into camp so I can be ready to go, because
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: normally you throw a couple of lo VP's right when
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: you get to camp. So just thinking at it in
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: that regard, and then obviously whenever you sign, you'll really
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: get those talks and kind of how you really want
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: to jump start it, make sure you're you're good to
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: go right when camp starts.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: One of the things I hear from fans all the time,
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: well why didn't you go and play for this team?
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: It's like, well they never called if you had it
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: your way? Is there a team of the of the
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: ones you haven't played for that you're like, this is intriguing.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: I always played against them, or I love that city
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: or my wife is from there, or I really hate
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: this team. I want to never play for them. What
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: is there a team that you want to play for
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: that You're like, hen, I hope they call, man, you know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I haven't really had that thought was we've weirdly
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: had like like you said, I've played for the Raised,
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Kansas City, LA, and Toronto, so we've literally done East coast, midwest,
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: West coast in a different country. So like across you know,
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: the league, we can you know, we can make that work,
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: you know, across the country. So we've always just looked
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: at it as best opportunity, especially with these new rules.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: It's like you kind of see all the places. I
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: know everyone thinks it's kind of a cop out, but
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: any kind of a boring answer, but you know, you
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: just want to go where you have a good opportunity
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: to kind of have some success and you know, play
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: for a good club. So I know it's kind of
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: the boring answer, but you know, I don't unless you
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: get to the luxury of having some multiple offers and
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: stuff like that and you kind of pick and choose.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: You just want to be able to get a good opportunity.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: I think it's fair though, because we're getting some questions
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: in the chat like would you sign with this team
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: when you sign with that team? And my reply is yeah,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: I think I gets the right offering situation. He would
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: consider all of those teams, Like Ryan is not, you know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: playing the Juan Soto game, Like what else?
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Will did you have meetings?
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Did you have you been whined and dying like Wan
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: So did they have have you had meetings like Sazaki?
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Ryan? Or they bring in these stars to talk to you? Wow?
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: You know, like what what a what a time that
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: would be to have those kind of conversations right like that,
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: But like, no, I don't think I'm gonna get those opportunities.
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: I'm sure I'll get a couple of phone calls or
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: maybe a zoom call or something like that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, why why can't Why can't if if Osaki gets
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: like Mookie Bets, Freddy Freeman, Yamoto show show, Hey, why
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: can't you get like meeting with like Austin Barnes and
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: like and like bout like they don't even bring doc in,
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: they bring whoever the de facto bench coach is gonna be,
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: and they're just like, hey, Ryan, you want a burger
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: and some fries and sign with the Dodgers.
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: We'll meet it in and out and we'll just hang
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: out and get to know each other a little bit.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: That's real.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Cratch.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: You're wrapping Philly. AJ's wrapping the white sox here.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Here's the thing.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Every person though you talk to thinks every free agent
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: gets that. Some people, my family members have said the
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: same thing. Everyone thinks they because you're afraid that you
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: get that.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Everybody Usually the phone calls now are oh, well you
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: didn't do this, well, you didn't do that.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Well Fifth wasn't perfect. Exactly that darn fifth get you
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: every time?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Well, Ryan, hit us up when you sign Okay, we'll
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: bring you back on and we'll talk about it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: I would love to appreciate it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Hopefully. Look surviving this cold front we're going through and.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Stay inside, go ahead, they safe because there is a
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: good chance I got frostbite when I walk my dogs today.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen the sun in like four days. And
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: it's I'm going through withdrawals right now. And most people
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: are like, yeah, yeah, that's just how life is during
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: the winter. Once and it's like, non Florida, this is
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: not this is not normal.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're stopperating down here, so stay strong, stay strong, yarbs.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk to you soon, dude.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: I appreciate you.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: Guys,